2. Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure{2}.
[PJC]

3. Something that attracts attention or on which the atention is fixed; a cynosure{3}.
[PJC]

{

Load"stone`

,

Lode"stone

(?) },
n. [Load,
lode +
stone.]
(Min.) A piece of magnetite, a magnetic iron ore, possessing polarity like a magnetic needle, having the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically. See Magnetite.
[1913 Webster]

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